Sixteen Tons, what-a ya get?
Colorado is really beautiful, but also very crowded in the summer. Not only that, so many locations are either under claim or on private property, and thus inacessable to rockhounds.
One reason why everything is posted is because of all the hippies out here.
Justin had researched a whole bunch of potential fliming locations, but only a fraction were actually open to collecting. The first spot that we filmed was the old Jamestown Mine.
We parked in the pullout,
and then followed the trail up to the mine.
We collected massive purple Fluorite
and Quartz
Shortly after leaving Jamestown, we saw a sparkly vein on Mica beside the road.
After that we collected Schorl at another roadcut.
However the best location of the day was Sphalerite location outside of Boulder.
Colorado has some of the best Sphalerite found in North America, so we were very excited to find some kinda gemmy, greenish-yellow ones.
However it wasn’t all fun and games. We drove to countless other locations that were closed.
Most these didn’t get filmed or photographed, but the Carnotite location outside of Leydan, made Justin so sad that he decided to film it for his “Dead Mineral Localities” series.
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